School officials: Obama's College Scorecard off the mark

7:54 PM,
Feb. 15, 2013

Student head for classes during mid-morning class changeover at The College at Brockport on Friday. Officials from several local colleges say that President Obama's new College Scorecard misses the mark.

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In Tuesday's State of the Union address, President Barack Obama said that today's "skyrocketing costs" of college "price way too many young people out of higher education or saddle them with unsustainable debt."

But officials at area colleges say the new College Scorecard that Obama announced, designed to help families decide which schools offer the most bang for the buck, misses the mark.

The scorecard, made available to the public on Wednesday at whitehouse.gov/scorecard, provides capsule summaries of individual colleges. ...